The Brain : teaching modules. / [DVD] / produced with funding from Worth Publishers, Inc and the Annenberg/CPB Project ; authors, Frank J. Vattano, Thomas L. Bennett, and Michelle Butler.
"The second edition series includes new materials authored and compiled by Frank J. Vattano, Thomas L. Bennett, and Michelle Butler, Department of Psychology, Colorado State University" "The modules also include excerpts from the PBS series The Brain, produced by WNET-TV, New York, with major funding from Annenberg/CPB Project"
Contents:
Disc 1 of 3. Modules 1-15. Foundations 1: Organization and Evaluation of Brain Function. 2: The Effects of Hormones and the Environment of Brain Development. 3: Gender Development: Social Influences. 4: Intelligence and Culture. Cortical Organization and Specialization. 5: The Divided Brain. 6: Language and Speech: Broca's and Wernicke's Areas. 7: Brain Anomaly and Plasticity: Hydrocephalus. Vision and Movement 8: Visual Information Processing: Elementary Concepts. 9: Visual Information Processing: Perception. 10: Perception: Inverted Vision. 11: Sensory-Motor Integration. 12: Huntington's Disease. Circadian Rhythms, Sleep, and Dreaming. 13: Sleep and Ciracadian Rhythms. 14: Sleep: Brain Functions. 15: REM Sleep and Dreaming. Disc 2 of 3. Modules 16-25. Memory and Amnesia 16: The Locus of Learning and Memory. 17: Learning as Synaptic Change. 18: Living with Amnesia: The Hippocampus and Memory. 19: Alzheimer's Disease. 20: A Super-Memorist Advises on Study Strategies. Stress and Coping 21: Emotions, Stress, and Health. 22: Stress: Locus of Control and Predictability. Personality and Aggression 23: Multiple Personality. 24: Aggression, Violence, and the Brain. 25: Frontal Lobes and Behavior: The Story of Phineas Gage. Disc 3 of 3. Modules 26-32. Psychological Disorders 26: Schizophrenia: Symptoms. 27: Schizophrenia: Etiology. 28: Schizophrenia: Pharmacological Treatment. 29: Autism. Treatment of Brain Disorders 30: Understanding the Brain Through Epilepsy. 31: Brain Transplants in Parkinson's Patients. 32: Neurorehabilitation. disc 1. -- 1. Organization and evaluation of brain function. -- 2. The effects of hormones and the environment on brain development. -- 3. Gender development: social influences. -- 4. Intelligence and culture -- 5. The divided brain. -- 6. Language and speech: broca and wernicke's areas. -- 7. Brain anomaly and plasticity: hydrocephalus. -- 8. Visual information processing: elementary concepts. -- 9. Visual information processing: perception. -- 10. Perception: inverted vision. -- 11. Sensory-motor integration. -- 12. Huntington's disease. -- 13. Sleep and circadian rhythms. -- 14. Sleep: brain functions. -- 15. REM sleep and dreaming (106 min.) -- disc 2. -- 16. The locus of learning and memory. -- 17. Learning as synaptic change. -- 18. Living with amnesia: the hippocampus and memory. -- 19. Alzheimer's disease. -- 20. A super-memorist advises on study strategies. -- 21. Emotions, stress, and health. -- 22. Stress: locus of control and predictability. -- 23. Multiple personality. -- 24. Aggression, violence, and the brain. -- 25. Frontal lobes and behavior: the story of phineas gage (89 min.) -- disc 3. -- 26. Schizophrenia: symptoms -- 27. Schizophrenia: etiology; 28. Schizophrenia: pharmacological treatment; 29. Autism -- Treatment of brain disorders. -- 30. Understanding the brain through epilepsy. -- 31. Brain transplants in parkinson's patients. -- 32. Neurorehabilitation (78 min.). 1. Modules 1-15 (1 hr., 45 min.) -- 2. Modules 16-25 (1 hr., 28 min.) -- 3. Modules 26-32 (1 hr., 18 min.)
Summary:
Included in this series on the brain are the latest findings on Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, brain transplants, epilepsy, autism, and many other topics.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.